Events
Cosponsors
- The Columbia University Seminar in Studies in Political and Social Thought
- Center for Democracy, Toleration, and Religion
- Committee on Global Thought
Notes
- Free and open to the public
- No registration necessary
- First come, first seated
- Photo ID required for entry
The Heyman Center will host a day-long conference on secularism, liberalism, and its relation to left politics in India today. Participating will be prominent Indian politicians and intellectuals including
Keynote speaker: Sitaram Yechury
Additional Speakers: Prabhat Patnaik, Jayati Ghosh, C.P. Chandrahekar, Javeed Alam
Discussants: Sanjay Reddy, Arjun Jayadev, Anush Kapadia, Anwar Shaikh, Vijay Prasad, Akeel Bilgrami
Note: the keynote will take place in Davis Auditorium, the Schapiro Center.
Participants
- Keynote Speaker Sitaram Yechury Parliamentary Group Leader Communist Party of India
- Speaker Prabhat Patnaik Professor Emeritus, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Speaker Jayati Ghosh Professor of Economics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Speaker CP Chandrasekhar Professor of Economics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Speaker Javeed Alam Chairman Indian Council of Social Science Research
- Discussant Sanjay Reddy Associate Professor of Economics The New School for Social Research
- Discussant Arjun Jayadev Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts University of Massachusetts Boston
- Discussant Anush Kapadia Lecturer on Social Studies Harvard University
- Discussant Anwar Shaikh Professor of Economics The New School
- Discussant Akeel Bilgrami Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy Columbia University